Early life David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre,Lanarkshire,Scotland. He was the second of seven children born to Neil Livingstone (1788–1856) and his wife Agnes Hunter (1782–1865). He was a student at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1838 to 1840 where his courses covered medical practice, midwifery and botany.
David became an avid reader, but he also loved scouring the countryside for animal, plant and geological specimens in local limestone quarries.
Neil Livingstone (David Livingstone's dad) had a fear of science books as undermining Christianity and attempted to force him to read nothing but theology, but David's deep interest in nature and science led him to investigate the relationship between religion and science. Extract from www.wikipedia.org
Exploration of southern and central Africa David Livingstone explored the African interior to the north, in the period 1852–56, and was the first European to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders") waterfall (which he renamed Victoria Falls after his ruler, Queen Victoria), of which he wrote later, "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight." Livingstone was one of the first Europeans to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854–56.[4] Despite repeated European attempts, especially by the Portuguese, central and southern Africa had not been crossed by Europeans at that latitude owing to their susceptibility to malaria, dysentery andsleeping sickness which was prevalent in the interior and which also prevented use ofdraught animals (oxen and horses), as well as to the opposition of powerful chiefsand tribes, such as the Lozi, and the Lunda of Mwata Kazembe
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River Nile
In January 1866, Livingstone returned to Africa, this time to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile. Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke and Samuel Baker had (although there was still serious debate on the matter) identified either Lake Albert or Lake Victoria as the source (which was partially correct, as the Nile "bubbles from the ground high in the mountains of Burundi halfway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria"[10]). Livingstone believed the source was further south and assembled a team of freed slaves, Comoros Islanders, twelve Sepoys and two servants, Chuma and Susi, from his previous expedition to find it.Setting out from the mouth of the Ruvuma river Livingstone's assistants began deserting him. The Comoros Islanders had returned to Zanzibar and informed authorities that Livingstone had died. He reached Lake Malawi on 6 August, by which time most of his supplies, including all his medicines, had been stolen. Livingstone then travelled through swamps in the direction of Lake Tanganyika. With his health declining he sent a message to Zanzibar requesting supplies be sent to Ujiji and he then headed west. Forced by ill health to travel with slave traders he arrived atLake Mweru on 8 November 1867 and continued on, travelling south to become the first European to see Lake Bangweulu. Finding the Lualaba River, Livingstone mistakenly concluded it was the high part of the Nile River; in fact it flows into the River Congo at Upper Congo Lake. The year 1869 began with Livingstone finding himself extremely ill whilst in the jungle. He was saved by Arab traders who gave him medicines and carried him to an Arab outpost.[11] In March 1869 Livingstone, suffering from pneumonia, arrived in Ujiji to find his supplies stolen. Coming down with cholera and tropical ulcers on his feet he was again forced to rely on slave traders to get him as far as Bambara where he was caught by the wet season. With no supplies, Livingstone had to eat his meals in a roped off open enclosure for the entertainment of the locals in return for food.[9] On 15 July 1871, according to Livingstone's recently released original handwritten diaries,[12] while he was visiting the town of Nyangwe on the banks of the Lualaba River, he witnessed around 400 Africans being massacred by slavers.[13] The massacre horrified Livingstone, leaving him too shattered to continue his mission to find the source of the Nile.[12] Following the end of the wet season, he travelled 240 miles from Nyangwe – violently ill most of the way – back to Ujiji, an Arab settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, arriving on 23 October 1871. Big extract from www.wikipedia.org
1.What did he explore? 2.Where did he explore? 3.When was he born? 4.When did he die? 5.Why did he die? 6.Which age was he when he died? 7.Where was he born? 8.Where did he die? 9.Why was he famous? 10.Was he rich? 11.Was he nice? 12.Did he have a son/daughter? 13.Did he have a wife? 14.Did he have a happy life? 15.Which school did he learn in?
Early life
David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre,Lanarkshire,Scotland.
He was the second of seven children born to Neil Livingstone (1788–1856) and his wife Agnes Hunter (1782–1865).
He was a student at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1838 to 1840 where his courses covered medical practice, midwifery and botany.
David became an avid reader, but he also loved scouring the countryside for animal, plant and geological specimens in local limestone quarries.
Neil Livingstone (David Livingstone's dad) had a fear of science books as undermining Christianity and attempted to force him to read nothing but theology, but David's deep interest in nature and science led him to investigate the relationship between religion and science.
Extract from www.wikipedia.org
Exploration of southern and central AfricaDavid Livingstone explored the African interior to the north, in the period 1852–56, and was the first European to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders") waterfall (which he renamed Victoria Falls after his ruler, Queen Victoria), of which he wrote later, "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight."
Livingstone was one of the first Europeans to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854–56.[4] Despite repeated European attempts, especially by the Portuguese, central and southern Africa had not been crossed by Europeans at that latitude owing to their susceptibility to malaria, dysentery andsleeping sickness which was prevalent in the interior and which also prevented use ofdraught animals (oxen and horses), as well as to the opposition of powerful chiefsand tribes, such as the Lozi, and the Lunda of Mwata Kazembe
Extract from www.wikipedia.org
River Nile
In January 1866, Livingstone returned to Africa, this time to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile. Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke and Samuel Baker had (although there was still serious debate on the matter) identified either Lake Albert or Lake Victoria as the source (which was partially correct, as the Nile "bubbles from the ground high in the mountains of Burundi halfway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria"[10]). Livingstone believed the source was further south and assembled a team of freed slaves, Comoros Islanders, twelve Sepoys and two servants, Chuma and Susi, from his previous expedition to find it.Setting out from the mouth of the Ruvuma river Livingstone's assistants began deserting him. The Comoros Islanders had returned to Zanzibar and informed authorities that Livingstone had died. He reached Lake Malawi on 6 August, by which time most of his supplies, including all his medicines, had been stolen. Livingstone then travelled through swamps in the direction of Lake Tanganyika. With his health declining he sent a message to Zanzibar requesting supplies be sent to Ujiji and he then headed west. Forced by ill health to travel with slave traders he arrived atLake Mweru on 8 November 1867 and continued on, travelling south to become the first European to see Lake Bangweulu. Finding the Lualaba River, Livingstone mistakenly concluded it was the high part of the Nile River; in fact it flows into the River Congo at Upper Congo Lake.The year 1869 began with Livingstone finding himself extremely ill whilst in the jungle. He was saved by Arab traders who gave him medicines and carried him to an Arab outpost.[11] In March 1869 Livingstone, suffering from pneumonia, arrived in Ujiji to find his supplies stolen. Coming down with cholera and tropical ulcers on his feet he was again forced to rely on slave traders to get him as far as Bambara where he was caught by the wet season. With no supplies, Livingstone had to eat his meals in a roped off open enclosure for the entertainment of the locals in return for food.[9]
On 15 July 1871, according to Livingstone's recently released original handwritten diaries,[12] while he was visiting the town of Nyangwe on the banks of the Lualaba River, he witnessed around 400 Africans being massacred by slavers.[13] The massacre horrified Livingstone, leaving him too shattered to continue his mission to find the source of the Nile.[12] Following the end of the wet season, he travelled 240 miles from Nyangwe – violently ill most of the way – back to Ujiji, an Arab settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, arriving on 23 October 1871.
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Died 1st May 1873.
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1.What did he explore?
2.Where did he explore?
3.When was he born?
4.When did he die?
5.Why did he die?
6.Which age was he when he died?
7.Where was he born?
8.Where did he die?
9.Why was he famous?
10.Was he rich?
11.Was he nice?
12.Did he have a son/daughter?
13.Did he have a wife?
14.Did he have a happy life?
15.Which school did he learn in?